Instructions for you to get started

The below commands will teach you how to make it yourself from scratch (at least how to get started) Clone this repo only if you want to see the finished project.

django-admin startproject --template=https://github.com/heroku/heroku-django-template/archive/master.zip --name=Procfile electionsite
cd electionsite
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Using this Application

• If you do want to use this application yourself, follow these instructions:

git clone https://github.com/sameetandpotatoes/Django-Tutorial
cd Django-Tutorial
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp secrets.py.example secrets.py.example

Fill in secrets.py with the AlchemyAPI keys and Twitter API credentials.

Change settings.py and input your relevant Postgres database credentials, and engine/seed.py to change the candidates you're searching for

API keys

To manage manage multiple sets of API keys both locally and on Heroku, I created a quick Python script in serializer.py to make it easy to create environment variables. Create a secrets.py in the root directory: ALCHEMY_CODES array and TWITTER_CODES hash with keys CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN, and ACCESS_SECRET. Then run python serializer.py and follow the instructions there.

Then,

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py seed
python manage.py fetch
python manage.py runserver